Historical Sociology of the Place of War Memory

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24330166
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: FUKUMA Yoshiaki 立命館大学, 産業社会学部, 教授 (70380144)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): YAMAGUCHI Makoto 関西大学, 社会学部, 教授 (80351493) ; INOUE Yoshikazu 帝京大学, 総合教育センター, 准教授 (10324592) ; YAMAMOTO Akihiro 神戸市外国語大学, 外国語学部, 講師 (70644996) ; SHIRATO Kenichiro 東京大学, 総合文化研究科, 研究員 (80737015) ; KWON Hakjun 立命館大学, 産業社会学部, 准教授 (20381650) ; TAKAI Masashi 桃山学院大学, 社会学部, 准教授 (20425101) ; YOSHIMURA Kazuma 京都精華大学, マンガ学部, 教授 (00368044) ; MATSUNAGA Tomoko 東京経済大学, コミュニケーション学部, 講師 (60735801)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 戦跡 / メディア / 記憶

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to analyze the historical process of constructing the place of war memory. In postwar Japan, various places of war memory were “invented”. We focused on these process and analyzed the social background of them from the view point of media history and historical sociology. The main result of our study is our coauthor book The Birth of “Chiran” (published on June, 2015).

Free Research Field

歴史社会学